On 15/11/17 12:53, Ian Jackson wrote: > Someone who was sort-of-MIA said on -private that they would like to > keep their @debian.org email forwarding indefinitely, as they move to > emeritus status.
One alternative that wasn't mentioned in this thread: what if Debian stops providing @debian.org email addresses and phases out existing addresses? I'm not advocating this as my preferred solution, but it is useful to have all options on the table in a discussion about the email addresses. Benefits of deprecating all debian.org email addresses: - less things for DSA to maintain - less problems with forwarding from debian.org to other mail servers that enable strict SPF policies[1] - people would be forced to use (or create) some other email address for their packaging work (debian/control, changelog) and these addresses would still be contactable after they leave the project Disadvantages: - for people who want a distinct email address for their Debian contributions, a little extra effort to create and monitor an extra private email address for their packaging work - existing addresses will still linger around for a long time - the use of the debian.org addresses is a strong way for people to show that they are doing things on behalf of Debian, the loss of this benefit could be mitigated partially by using team addresses to send some types of communication Regards, Daniel 1. http://www.openspf.org/FAQ/Forwarding